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Alicia Foster – Life-changing Literature
It knocked my socks off when I read it and utterly transformed my view of a novel I thought I…
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Christina Koning – Why I Write
There is enormous pleasure to be had from playing around with language; I can honestly say I enjoy the editing…
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Ian Thomson – Letter To My Younger Self
The day you decided to nurse your thumping head with a hair, or a tuft, of the dog that bit…
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Kate Colquhoun – Life-changing Literature
From the outset Capote hooks us in with painstakingly precise detail that leaves no flake of old Kansas paint unnoticed.
Emma Darwin – How I Write
My story mind seems to work most naturally at novel scale, but the problem with novels is that scale. Writing…
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Gavin Weightman – How I Write
The time comes when there’s an overwhelming need to set something down. to begin. I bring up the blank Word…
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Stephen Wakelam – How I Write
A biographer connects up the dots in the picture having found the dots of data. The only fiction is in…
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Gabriel Gbadamosi – Life-changing Literature
On the opening night we had an audience of a thousand teenage girls screaming their heads off in derision at…
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Katie Grant – How I Write
It turns out that the quick answer to How I Write, is, in chaos. For a control freak like me…
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Livi Michael – Letter To My Younger Self
If you have an image of a writer it is of someone who lives in a house in the county…
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Nicolette Jones – Life-changing Literature
To me then it was like finding a key. It took me through a door into the next room of…
David Stuart Davies – How I Write
He told me he had reached chapter five and had just killed off one of his characters. He didn’t know…